Community Challenge | Join Relay For Life and fight cancer

10:34 PM,
Apr. 7, 2013

Written by

MARY KOST

While we may never fully understand the cards life deals us, I do believe that everything in life is purposeful and many times life events redirect our passion to help us to truly make a difference. My mother-in-law, Wilma Kost, was a strong, passionate woman who received the unfortunate news in 1997 that she had cancer. Mom was already a daily inspiration to me, but from that point forward she helped shape the person I am today.

Mom went through 11/2 years of conventional treatment, and when that didn't prove effective she began participating in a clinical trial. While the clinical trial ...